PhotoReflect

After 310 posts I've decided to draw a line under PhotoReflect. At the moment I can't muster the time to write the "reflections...

click photo to enlarge "I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to ste...

click photo to enlarge There seems to be a general feeling that computers are good for democracy. Supporters of this viewpoint cite the Chin...

click photo to enlarge The success of the "new" Mini has been trumpeted in the press in recent days. It seems to be selling very w...

click photo to enlarge No one who knows me would say I was at the leading edge of fashion. I search out boring, sludge-coloured clothes and ...

click photo to enlarge "When a dead tree falls the woodpeckers share in its death", Malayan proverb In the past fortnight I ha...

click photo to enlarge The pleasure to be found in language is limitless. You can learn history through language, conceive beauty by arrangi...

click photo to enlarge The first two-wheeler bicycle that I ever owned was assembled by my father. He took an old steel frame, stripped, it ...

click photo to enlarge "Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard", Benjamin Jowe...

click photo to enlarge "It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog...

click photo to enlarge "Don't be a sinner, be a binner!", anti-beach litter slogan devised by a school student The Irish Sea i...

click photo to enlarge It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Joni Mitchell (1943- ), Canadian singer, s...

I have some work to do, so it's unlikely that I'll be posting to the blog during the month of February. I intend to resume normal se...

click photo to enlarge The casualties of the Second World War were many. Tens of millions of civilians died, as did millions serving in the ...

click photo to enlarge One of the "quality" UK newspapers, "The Guardian", has a regular column called " Bad Scienc...

click photo to enlarge In the south of England pollen from beech trees can be detected in remains dating back to 6000BC. No longer restricte...

click photo to enlarge What's the difference between represent- ational art and abstract art? Well, most people would say that abstract ...

click photo to enlarge When I was a child Sundays were different. People rose later than on Saturday or on a weekday. The streets were quiet...

click photo to enlarge An observant visitor to the UK is likely to notice the relatively small number of Union flags that are flown. Compare...

click photo to enlarge Ferns came into being three hundred million years ago in the forests of the Carboniferous period. They pre-date flowe...